Like a kid whose first love went away to college and never came back, Seattle will never get over the Sonics. But there is, it turns out, another professional basketball team in town. And they're awesome. They were champs last year, and their season opener is this weekend. Let's make this the year we get behind the Storm.
Don't Drop the Ball: Make This the Year You Actually Support the Seattle Storm
The Big Blog: Seattle's Jokes of April Fools Past
This is a day of double- and triple-verifying facts and taking everything you hear with a grain of salt. For the tired, the gullible and the stressed, this is perhaps the worst holiday ever.
Oklahoma Can Have the Team, But We Keep the Trophies
Like the large-scale divorce it is, Seattle and Oklahoma City have divvied up the personal artifacts and furniture once associated with the Seattle Supersonics. We get to keep the trophies, championship banners and retired jerseys--which will be kept and shown at the MOHAI. Oklahoma City and the Thunder (or whatever the team will be called) has been awarded some CDs, a flat screen TV, a basketball inflater, and a replay monitor. For once in this nasty divorce, it sounds like we actually got the better deal...we'll take small victories.
Boston Ladies Love Sonics Front Office Men
Our Boston siblings brought our attention to yet another oddity in the Seattle Sonics saga. From our own paper, mind you:
"For months, a Boston-area woman thought she was dating a Sonics front-office employee and former NBA player named Jeff Turner, a handsome, 6-foot-8 40-something who was polite, compassionate and respectful."But, of course, it was a flim flam and the aptly named Ronnie Craven was revealed to be neither Jeff Turner nor a Sonics employee. He was just some guy from a place still called "Slummerville" by the snootier denizens of Boston proper.
The Oklahoma City Sonics
Just doesn't have the same ring to it. But NBA owners went ahead and approved the request to move the Sonics to Oklahoma. They supported the move overwhelmingly, with a 28-2 vote. We never thought we'd say this in an unsarcastic manner, but thanks, Paul Allen and Mark Cuban. They cast the lone nay votes. Guess that Oklahoma City website that listed the Sonics as a "local team" weren't speaking too soon, after all.
Sonics Sell Seattle Storm To Local Owners
Great news for Seattle Storm fans broke last night: Sonics owner Clay Bennett will sell the WNBA team to a local ownership group.
NBA Commish: Only a "Miracle" Will Keep the Sonics in Seattle
We'd held out hope that, seeing as how the Oklahoma City-based owners of the Sonics flat out admitted they never intended to keep them here, that NBA commissioner David Stern would use his influence to throw the suckers out and find local ownership in Seattle.
The Sonics Screwed Up (19 years ago)
ESPN's Page Two calls the Sonics' 1987 pick of Scottie Pippen #34 on their list of the 100 worst draft picks of all-time...sort of.
Previously on Seattlest: Holiday Edition
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